From f69b1db099032be375a43963db8f81f6cb12e220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rez Moss <hi@rezmoss.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:02:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: detect elixir bin (#4334)

* Elixir detection, fixed #4333
---------
Signed-off-by: Rez Moss <hi@rezmoss.com>
---
 .../binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go       | 16 +++++++++++++++
 syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/elixir | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../linux-amd64/lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app    | 19 ++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/elixir
 create mode 100644 syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app

diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
index 055672b25..4cd12f4df 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
@@ -1403,6 +1403,22 @@ func Test_Cataloger_PositiveCases(t *testing.T) {
 				Metadata:  metadata("ffmpeg-library"),
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "elixir",
+				Version:   "1.19.1",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/elixir@1.19.1",
+				Locations: locations("elixir", "lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app"),
+				Metadata: pkg.BinarySignature{
+					Matches: []pkg.ClassifierMatch{
+						match("elixir-binary", "elixir"),
+						match("elixir-library", "lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app"),
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range tests {
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
index a58091c6b..c3480aac8 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
@@ -663,6 +663,26 @@ func DefaultClassifiers() []binutils.Classifier {
 			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/ffmpeg@version"),
 			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
 		},
+		{
+			Class:    "elixir-binary",
+			FileGlob: "**/elixir",
+			EvidenceMatcher: m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(
+				`(?m)ELIXIR_VERSION=(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)`),
+			Package: "elixir",
+			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/elixir@version"),
+			CPEs: []cpe.CPE{
+				cpe.Must("cpe:2.3:a:elixir-lang:elixir:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Class:    "elixir-library",
+			FileGlob: "**/elixir/ebin/elixir.app",
+			EvidenceMatcher: m.FileContentsVersionMatcher(
+				`(?m)\{vsn,"(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)?)"\}`),
+			Package: "elixir",
+			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/elixir@version"),
+			CPEs:    singleCPE("cpe:2.3:a:elixir-lang:elixir:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", cpe.NVDDictionaryLookupSource),
+		},
 	}
 
 	return append(classifiers, defaultJavaClassifiers()...)
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/elixir b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/elixir
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4903259c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/elixir
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 The Elixir Team
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Plataformatec
+
+set -e
+
+ELIXIR_VERSION=1.19.1
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ] || { [ $# -eq 1 ] && { [ "$1" = "--help" ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ]; }; }; then
+  cat <<USAGE >&2
+Usage: $(basename "$0") [options] [.exs file] [data]
+
+## General options
+
+  -e "COMMAND"                 Evaluates the given command (*)
+  -h, --help                   Prints this message (standalone)
+  -r "FILE"                    Requires the given files/patterns (*)
+  -S SCRIPT                    Finds and executes the given script in \$PATH
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d3b3e0be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/elixir/1.19.1/linux-amd64/lib/elixir/ebin/elixir.app
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{application,elixir,
+    [{description,"elixir"},
+     {vsn,"1.19.1"},
+     {modules,
+         ['Elixir.Access','Elixir.Agent.Server','Elixir.Agent',
+          'Elixir.Application','Elixir.ArgumentError',
+          elixir_overridable,elixir_parser,elixir_quote,elixir_rewrite,
+          elixir_sup,elixir_tokenizer,elixir_utils,iex]},
+     {registered,[elixir_sup,elixir_config,elixir_code_server]},
+     {applications,[kernel,stdlib,compiler]},
+     {mod,{elixir,[]}},
+     {env,
+         [{ansi_syntax_colors,
+              [{atom,cyan},
+               {binary,default_color},
+               {operator,default_color}]},
+          {check_endianness,true},
+          {dbg_callback,{'Elixir.Macro',dbg,[]}},
+          {time_zone_database,'Elixir.Calendar.UTCOnlyTimeZoneDatabase'}]}]}.